Electric lighting attachment for gas-fixtures



(No Model.)

G. A. HUSSEY.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING ATTACHMENT FOR GAS FIXTURES.

Patented June 16, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES A. HUSSEY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO I JOSEPH SNYDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ELECTRIC LIGHTING ATTACHMENT FOR GAS-FIXTURES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 320,065, dated June 16, 1885.

Application filed January 13, 1885.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. HUssnY, of New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Electric Lighting Attachments. for Gas-Fixtures, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my improvement is to provide a simple and unobtrusive attachment to a gas-fixture, whereby an electric battery and a coil for electric lighting appliances may be supported.

My improvement consists in a clamp or attachment made in two sections connected, so as to admit of their separation to enable them to be slipped onto the stem of a gas-fixture transversely to the length of the latter, and so as to admit of their being clamped upon the same, said clamp having ringshaped portions, and being combined with cases fitted in the ring-shaped portions and serving to contain an electric battery and coil.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a chandelier and a vertical section of a holder and appurtenances, including an electric battery and a coil;and Fig. 2 is a plan of the holder.

Similar letters of reference designate corre sponding parts in both figures.

A designates the stem of a gas-fixture of ordinary construction, and B designates the arms thereof. These parts, as shown, are intended to be made of metal. At the ends of the armsare burners G, which are intended to be made of metal.

Each burner has a stationary contact-piece or electrode, D, and a movable contact-piece or electrode, E, which is adapted to swing past the stationary contact-piece and produce an electric spark for lighting gas issuing from the burner-tip. The movable contactpieces or electrodes are insulated from the stationary contact-pieces or electrodes. I do not here claim these contact-pieces or electrodes or the appurtenances thereof, as I have made them the subject of another application for Letters Patent.

F designates a holder consisting, as here shown, of two rings or sockets, a at, having shanks b I), provided with clamping-pieces c c, which fit the stem of the chandelier, and are (No model.)

clamped to the same, so as to be fastened thereto by screws d d, passing loosely through one of the clampingpieces and working in tapped holes in the other. All these parts may be made of metal.

It is advantageous to make the clampingpieces separable, because they may then be applied to a chandelier without removing it from its support, as would be necessary to enable a single clamping-piece to be slipped over the top of the stem of the chandelier. A single clamping-piece and set-screw may, however, be employed when this objection will not be a serious one.

The holder may be secured in any desirable position upon the stem of the chandelier. Preferably, it will be arranged near the top.

G designates a case preferably made of sheet metal, which is inserted in the ring a, and has a circumferential shoulder, c, which rests upon the top of the ring. This case may be made of any ornamental configuration which will admit of its being inserted in the ring a. It contains an electric battery, H, which may be of any approved style, and preferably has an ornamental removable cover, G.

I designates a case,which, preferably, will be made like the case G, and provided with a shoulder, f, to rest upon the ring a, and a re movable ornamental cover, I. This case contains a coil, K, of insulated wire.

A wire, J, leads from abinding-post, g,which is in electrical communication with one pole of the battery, through an opening in the case G orits cover G. It is shown as connected to a piece of metal, L, which is clamped between the clamp of the holder and the stem of the chandelier. It is thus in electrical communication with the chandelier, the burners thereof, and their stationary contact pieces or electrodes D.

A wire, J, extends from a binding-post, g, which is in electrical communication with the other pole of the battery to a binding-post,

h, which is in electrical communication with one end of the coil K.

A wire, J extends from a binding-post, h, which is in electrical communication with the IOO other end of the coil K to wires J extending to the movable contact-pieces or electrodes E.

It will be seen that by my improvement-I provide for applying electric lighting applian es to a gas-fixture at a slight expense and without occasioning any difficulty in Wiring 5 for circuits or marring the appearance of the fixture.

WVhat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A clam p or attachment made in two sections 10 connected, so as to admit of their separation to enable them to be slipped onto the stem and serving to contain an electric battery and coil, substantially as specified.

G. A. IIUSSEY. Vi tn csses:

T. J. KEANE, E. T. ROCHE. 

